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63 alleged NYC gangsters busted, thanks to their own Facebook blabbing
The alleged members of three rival drug and gun gangs apparently spoon-fed New York police, serving up allusions to their alleged crimes in slangy, atrociously spelled postings to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
US woman arrested for bank robbery brags on YouTube about robbing a bank
A woman tells, in a YouTube video, how she stole a car, smoked the marijuana found therein, robbed a bank, is a victim of the government, and told her mother it was the "best day of her life."
She was arrested before police even found the video.
Google: Government surveillance of the internet is on the rise
Google has released its semi-annual Transparency Report, saying that it received more than 20,000 requests for user data in the first half of 2012 - a sign of greater government surveillance.
Monday review: the hot 31 stories of the week
It's time for this week's Monday review: all our stories from the past seven days.
Enjoy!
Warning: Here are three emails you don't want to see in your inbox
Spammers are disguising their emails to pretend to come from YouTube, Google and LinkedIn.
Illegal content on YouTube? Beware spammed-out malware attack
Internet users are being warned about a malware attack that has been spammed out widely, posing as a communication from YouTube about copyrighted video content.
The emails, which have the subject line "Your video may have illegal content", pretend to come from Google's YouTube team.
EU tells Google to make its new privacy policy clearer and to give users easier opt-out
EU regulators have asked Google to shape up its new privacy policy - a policy that most regulators found too vague and too tough for users to opt out of. But neither clarity nor easy user opt-out work in Google's favor, and many of us are too addicted to cut the cord to free services such as Gmail, YouTube and Google+.
"Can you hack my Twitter? Pleaseee!"
If you get locked out of your Twitter account, would you ask someone to hack it for you?
How to navigate Google's privacy options
Google is rolling out a new privacy policy on March 1st, 2012. In this article I sum up the changes and provide information on how to control your Google privacy settings.
Microsoft's YouTube channel has been hacked
Hackers have taken control of Microsoft's official YouTube channel, removing the company's videos and replaced them with their own.
Sesame Street's YouTube channel hacked, replaced with porn
Sesame Street had its YouTube channel hacked on Sunday, and its highly popular child-friendly videos of muppets like Kermit the frog and the Big Bird replaced with something far less savoury...
How to deal with an internet troll
The internet is full of offensive trolls - learn the best way of dealing with them, and why it's important not to pour fuel on the flames.
Privacy and security in the cloud - is there any?
Is there any privacy or security in the cloud?
And if so, is that because we'll all be spending so much time watching new YouTube videos, just to keep up, that we won't have time to give away personal information any more?
Why are you tagged in this video? It's a viral Facebook scam
Facebook users have been hit by another fast-spreading scam today, pretending to be a link to a YouTube video that they have been tagged in.
Opinion: Thief punished through YouTube and Facebook's Social Ad campaign
Earlier this week, i wrote an article about the unexpected dangers of photo-tagging having real life consequences for people. A few more stories emerged this week that raise questions around social networking, privacy and punishment.
'Here you have' virus interest exploited by YouTube scammers
The big news on the security front at the end of the working week was the widely-reported "Here you have" virus which arrived in inboxes with a waft of nostalgia, in the style of old-school mass-mailing malware. What has brought Read more…
Adobe advises on new Reader and Acrobat vulnerability
Update: After analyzing the payload that is downloaded by the in the wild sample provided by @snowfl0w I can report that Sophos detects the payload as Troj/Agent-OOH. Kaspersky is reporting that payloads have been seen that are digitally signed using Read more…
Video fan or scammer? Survey spam on YouTube
One of the themes that has been coming through loud and clear in the security world for the last few months has been the use by scammers of revenue-generating surveys. I've reported about many of these on the Clu-blog, mostly Read more…
The dumbest question Sophos has been asked this week
Here's a message that the SophosLabs YouTube channel received today from a fellow user: Crumbs. I wonder if they realise we're a computer security company, and that we're kinda against this sort of stuff. Anyway, I'm stumped as to how Read more…
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Google pleads for YouTube real-name use
Google is attempting to clean up YouTube commentary, by pleading with commenters to use real names when posting.